"Knock off its horns and wipe its ass" (Texan ordering steak "rare")

[Charles Doyle]

It's an interesting anthropological question: Does a preference for undercooked flesh correlate with rugged rurality or with Manhattanistical sophistication?  Is it, perhaps, an artifact of Northeastern preppies trying to affect what they suppose to be manly Texanicity--like Bush's idiolect?

(I myself had never heard of eating "rare" steak until I left Texas in my early 20's and moved to Los Angeles.)

--Charlie

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---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:36:32 -0500
>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: "Knock off its horns and wipe its ass" (Texan ordering steak "rare")
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

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>There's one from the '40's - Reader's Digest? - WRT the opposite attitude. Texan in NYC complaining about rare steak:
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>In Texas, we bulldog steers that are hurt worse than this!
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>-Wilson

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